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Colonial Deforestation

Colonial Deforestation is a historical environmental process denoting the systematic clearance of forests in colonized territories, distinguished by its implementation through colonial administrative, economic, and legal mechanisms that prioritized resource extraction, plantation agriculture, and infrastructure development over indigenous land practices and ecological sustainability.

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Publications

90

Colonist Land‐Allocation Decisions, Land Use, and Deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon Frontier

Francisco Pichón · Economic Development and Cultural Change · 1997 · 237 citations

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Carbon colonialism and the new land grab: Plantation forestry in Uganda and its livelihood impacts

Kristen Lyons, Peter Westoby · Journal of Rural Studies · 2014 · 223 citations

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Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation: Shifting Cultivation and Population Growth in Colonial Madagascar (1896-1940)

Lucy Jarosz · Economic Geography · 1993 · 208 citations

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Victims of the Miracle: Development and the Indians of Brazil.

Emilio F. Morán, Shelton H. Davis · Hispanic American Historical Review · 1978 · 198 citations

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Colonialism and Forestry in India: Imagining the Past in Present Politics

K. Sivaramakrishnan · Comparative Studies in Society and History · 1995 · 153 citations

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Authors

138

  1. RL
    Raymond L. Bryant

    King's College London, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 134 citations

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  2. JC
    James C. McCann

    University of Washington, United States

    3 publications · 149 citations

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  3. TD
    Thomas D. Clark

    University Press of Kentucky, United States

    2 publications · 35 citations

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  4. PB
    Peter Boomgaard

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  5. MC
    Mark Cleary

    University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 62 citations

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Institutions

69

  1. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  2. FernUniversität in Hagen

    Hagen, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    58 citations

  3. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    80 citations

  4. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    85 citations

  5. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    70 citations

  6. University of Malawi

    Zomba, Malawi

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  7. University Press of Kentucky

    Lexington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  8. University of KwaZulu-Natal

    Durban, South Africa

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    108 citations

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Venues

  1. Environment and History

    6 publications · 194 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 196 citations

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  3. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 3 publications · 108 citations

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  4. Forest and Conservation History

    3 publications · 98 citations

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  5. Modern Asian Studies

    3 publications · 99 citations

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